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i read that and saw the video a few hours ago. I am still sitting in my chair with my feet off the ground, my cat is freaked out, that type of spider (looks like anyway) is all over E. long island in the fall looking for homes.

It's the perfect metaphor for the world wide web (spiders are always so damn literal).

Bloggers and other citizen journalist are the webspinners, and all those whining blood sucking parasitic mosquitos are the legacy media and their legion of 'serious' journalist who aren't nimble enough to navigate the web, but instead get stuck in it and consumed by those social spiders.

And I guess the general populace are outside either group, annoyed (and occasionally infected by) the bloodsuckers, while helped but freaked out by the webspinners.